7:08: Music: The Tragically Hip – “Ultra Mundane”

7:13:

Yesterday, CKUT’s Karina Vold spoke on the phone with Bear Witness, an Ottawa-based DJ and video artist. Bear Witness is a founding member of the world-renowned aboriginal DJ crew A Tribe Called Red. A Tribe Called Red have been pioneering a new genre of music they call ‘Pow-wow step’, combining traditional native drumming music with dubstep and electronic music. Bear Witness’s video work and music tackles issues of racist representations of Native people. He will be performing in Montreal tonight at Divan Orange along with Mossman, Andy Williams, and Don Pedro.

7:30: Music: Rufus Wainwright – “California”

7:37: The Urban Update

We start off with me talking about my experience on Jane’s Walk in Toronto “Retracing Stop Spadina.”

It was a four-and-a-half hour tour starting at Eglinton West TTC station and ending at Jane’s home in the Annex. It was excellent. And I wrote about the Jane’s Walks here in Montreal, so I can talk a bit about that as well. There was 52 across the island (more than double from last year). http://www.urbanecology.net/

And then there’s Great Britain, who following a defense review had downgraded their purchase of the vertical take-off capable F-35B to the carrier cat and trap varient, the F-35C. The idea, put forward by the new-ish Conservative government was intended to save $3.2B. Well…forget that. The Brits announced yesterday that they’d be buying that they originally intended to buy, dollars be damned.

Another footnote…the procurement process has been heavily criticized. Sound familiar???